You’ve read the Next Gen Donor Learning:  Lessons for Effective Programs from Houston and the Field report and now what?  Join us for a Learning Community event where we will take a deeper dive into the strategies and tactics of leading your own next gen learning program.  We will highlight professionals currently running programs who can share firsthand experiences.  This will be an opportunity to ask specific questions from curriculum design and budgets to creating the organizational buy-in to support the program.

Program Professionals

Jennifer Touchet is Vice President of Personal and Family Philanthropy and leads Greater Houston Community Foundation's Center for Family Philanthropy, whose mission is to engage, educate, and inspire the next generations of donors and leaders. She helps design and facilitate next gen donor learning programs, strategic philanthropy efforts, and supports a growing peer-network of over 150 Next Gen alum. She also helped launch the Foundation's work with Generation Z who keeps everyone on their toes! She chaired and still serves on the Community Foundation advisory committee for the National Center for Family Philanthropy.

Alyson Wise is Senior Vice President and Philanthropy Advisor at Bessemer Trust. In this role, she provides guidance on negotiating major gifts, selecting charitable vehicles, developing grantmaking strategies and guidelines, governance best practices, succession planning, and engaging the next generation in philanthropy. She also helps to design and facilitate foundation board and multigenerational family meetings. Prior to joining Bessemer, Alyson served as Associate Director for the Rockefeller Foundation, leading strategy and programming related to jobs and economic empowerment. She leverages over ten years of experience consulting for family philanthropies and working in corporate, private, and operating foundations. She is an experienced facilitator and author of next generation grantmaking curricula. She has served on numerous boards and advisory groups including the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative and the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals Taking Animals into Loving Spaces (TAILS). Alyson earned an M.P.A. from New York University, where she was a Lisa Goldberg Philanthropy fellow, and a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College..

Jaynie Levinson is the Women’s Philanthropy Director at the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati. Prior to her role working with women, she spent 3.5 years overseeing the Jewish Federation’s Young Adult Division. Today, she continues to manage the new staff member overseeing young adult engagement. Jaynie's role is to work with leadership development programs, fundraising, donor development and manage the engagement strategy for women of all ages. Jaynie is originally from Pittsburgh, PA and in August 2017 returned back to Cincinnati after 10 years. Jaynie has been married for almost a year to her husband David who also works in Jewish communal life. In her free time, Jaynie loves to travel, stay active, host friends and family for brunch and spend time with their golden retriever, yellow lab mix dog, Coney.

Fee: Free
Learning Community Event